For those of us who are Christians, let's make that choice--between the theology of Fox and the theology of Jesus.
Source: Huffington Post | Joy Strickland
We are all poorer because of the 45 million people who live in poverty. It is possible to change this picture, but first we must change our consciousness.
Source: Get Religion Blog | Terry Mattingly
God forgives. Bandidos don't. A crucial, relevant fact at the heart of the fighting in, yes, Waco and the heart of Texas?
Source: Huffington Post | Jim Wallis
How refreshing it was to be in the presence of leaders of faith are more interested in the needs of the poor and the call of Christ than in being "conformed to this world" and its shallow interests or reducing gospel concerns to a few hot-button social and sexual issues.
Source: The Washington Post | Sarah Pulliam Bailey
This week, Washington saw a high-profile example of another new way conservative evangelicals and Catholics are teaming up in public more — a summit around poverty.
Source: NBC online | Joy-Ann Reid
Whenever President Barack Obama wades into the debate over the causes of poverty, he often encounters critics at both ends of the ideological spectrum.
Source: Time Magazine (online) | Elizabeth Dias
On Monday in Washington, a diverse group of 120 political, religious and civic leaders including President Obama will gather at Georgetown University for a three-day Catholic-Evangelical leadership summit on poverty, in large part thanks to Pope Francis.
Source: Huffington Post | Carol Kuruvilla
According to a report from the PRRI, when white evangelical Protestants heard about Freddie Gray’s death, they were likely to say that it was just an isolated incident.
Source: Eugene Weekly | Shirley Kingsbury
We can again be a leader for our nation and at the same time join the rest of the countries of our developed world in providing health care for all.
Source: Broad Street Review | Maria Thompson Corley
It will take more than smiles and hugs to make Sandtown-Winchester a neighborhood that inspires hope, rather than despair.
Source: Huffington Post | Jim Wallis
Baltimore is a parable, a story that can teach us important lessons, and one in which we are still missing the most important lessons.
Source: Presbyterian Record | Fred Stewart
Post-Christian Canada does not need to see another messy church split. It is already convinced that we are irrelevant—both liberal and evangelical.
Source: Washington Post (Acts of Faith) | Lisa Sharon Harper
Let us pray for the end of the fires, and the end of “next times.”
Source: Huffington Post | Martin Marty
If we want to understand and do justice to important things in our world, we have to notice the "soft ideas" which face our hard and harsh realities.
Source: BizNews.com | Alec Hogg
The rioting that erupted in Baltimore on Monday marked an escalation of the racial turmoil that has flared across the US in recent months following the killings of unarmed black men by white police officers.
Source: Non-Profit Quarterly | Rick Cohen
If it is simply a matter of forgiving, perhaps better stated as reconciliation, that still leaves the question of the kind of “just world” people are trying to develop—or ought to develop.
Source: Spectrum | Charles Scriven
Bell now says that he doesn’t think God “exists.” Brown has published a book that is, in substantial part, a response to his friend’s experience.
Source: Religion News Service | Heather Adams
The World Bank is teaming up with global religious leaders in a 15-year effort to end extreme poverty by 2030.
Source: Lebanon Daily News
Rose Berger, senior associate editor of Sojourners magazine, will give the keynote address at Lebanon Valley College's baccalaureate service.
Source: Huffington Post | Jim Wallis
More than 50 Christian leaders voiced our support for the framework of a Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action between Iran and the P5+1 nations (the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Russia, China, and Germany) concerning Iran's nuclear program.